Vishwanath Pratap Singh,shortened to V. P. Singh,was an Indian politician who was the 7th Prime Minister of India from 1989 to 1990 and the 41st Raja Bahadur of Manda.
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a centre-right to right-wing conservative Indian political alliance led by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). It was founded in 1998 and currently controls the government of India as well as the government of 17 Indian states and one Union territory.
Sikander Bakht was an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who served as the 15th governor of Kerala from 2002 until his death. He was elected as the Vice President of the BJP,served as its leader in the Rajya Sabha,and as a cabinet minister in the NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. In 2000,he was awarded Padma Vibhushan,the second highest civilian honour of the Government of India.
Mohd. Ahmad Khan v. Shah Bano Begum [1985],commonly referred to as the Shah Bano case,was a controversial maintenance lawsuit in India,in which the Supreme Court delivered a judgment favouring maintenance given to an aggrieved divorced Muslim woman. Then the Congress government enacted a law with its most controversial aspect being the right to maintenance for the period of iddat after the divorce,and shifting the onus of maintaining her to her relatives or the Waqf Board. It was seen as discriminatory as it denied right to basic maintenance available to Muslim women under secular law.
Maneka Gandhi is an Indian politician,animal rights activist,and environmentalist. She is a member of the Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian parliament and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She is the widow of Indian politician Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments,most recently in Narendra Modi's government from May 2014 to May 2019.
Asaduddin Salahuddin Owaisi is an Indian politician,who is the President of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM). He is a 4 time Member of Parliament representing the Hyderabad constituency in Lok Sabha,the lower house of the Indian Parliament. For years,he has been regularly listed by Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre (RISSC),among the 500 Most Influential Muslims of the world.
Mohammad Yunus Saleem was an Indian politician,scholar,and lawyer,who was also active in the religious field. He was also a poet who campaigned to make Urdu the second official language. He was also a devout Muslim,who regularly observed Namaz and never missed Roza. The Mohammad Yunus Saleem Memorial Education Trust was established by his son Junaid Abdul Rehman to promote the study of the Quran.
The Jan Morcha was an Indian political party founded by V. P. Singh after he left the Indian National Congress party in 1987 upon being dismissed as Defence Minister by Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Together with Arun Nehru,Arif Mohammed Khan,Mufti Mohammad Sayeed,Vidya Charan Shukla,Ram Dhan,Raj Kumar Rai and Satyapal Malik,Singh formed a nucleus of opposition to the Rajiv Gandhi government that had a commanding majority in the Lok Sabha.
Arif Beg (1935–2016) was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader. He hailed from Indore in Madhya Pradesh state. His father,Qaramat ‘Pahalwan’Baig,had reached Indore from Afghanistan.
Vidya Charan Shukla was an Indian politician whose political career spanned six decades. He was predominantly a member of the Indian National Congress,but also had spells in Jan Morcha,Janata Dal,Samajwadi Janata Party (Rashtriya),Nationalist Congress Party and Bharatiya Janata Party. He was known as a close associate of Indira Gandhi.
General elections were held in India on 22 and 26 November 1989 to elect the members of the ninth Lok Sabha. The incumbent Indian National Congress (Indira) government under the premiership of Rajiv Gandhi lost its mandate,even though it was still the largest single party in the Lok Sabha. V. P. Singh,the leader of the second largest party Janata Dal was invited by the President of India to form the government. The government was formed with outside support from the Bharatiya Janata Party and Communist parties led by CPI(M). V. P. Singh was sworn in as the seventh Prime Minister of India on 2 December 1989.
General elections were held in India on 27 April,2 May and 7 May 1996 to elect the members of the eleventh Lok Sabha. The elections resulted in a hung parliament with no single party having a clear majority. The Bharatiya Janata Party,which had won the most seats,formed a short-lived government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However,two weeks later the United Front coalition was able to secure a parliamentary majority and H. D. Deve Gowda of Janata Dal became Prime Minister. In 1997 Inder Kumar Gujral,also from the United Front,succeeded Gowda as Prime Minister. Due to the instability,early elections were held in 1998. The elections were the first since 1980 in which every states' seats were elected in a single election period.
The Muslim Women Act was an act passed by the Parliament of India in 1986 to protect the rights of Muslim women who have been divorced from their husband and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. The Act was passed by the Rajiv Gandhi government,with its absolute majority,to nullify the decision in the Shah Bano case,and diluted the secular judgement of the Supreme Court.
Meenakshi Lekhi is an Indian politician and the current Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture of India from 7 July 2021. She is a Member of Parliament from New Delhi Parliamentary constituency in the 16th and 17th Lok Sabha from the Bharatiya Janata Party. She is also a lawyer in the Supreme Court of India.
Rabindra Kumar Jena is an Indian politician. He was working as managing director of Balasore Alloys Ltd. He was elected to the 16th Lok Sabha in 2014 from Balasore constituency in Odisha. He is a member of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) political party. In May 2019 Parliamentary Elections,he was defeated by Pratap Sarangi of BJP by a small margin His activity in the parliament in terms of attendance,debate participation and number of questions asked and bills raised is among the highest
The Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union (AMUSU) is the official Students' Union of the Aligarh Muslim University,Aligarh,India. The Aligarh Muslim University Students' Union is the university-wide representative body for students and is autonomous in nature. It works according to their own Constitution written by Amin A. Bulbuliya. It is primarily responsible for building and preserving a healthy political culture and an atmosphere of open debates on the campus. Students are kept informed about the public meetings,discussions and other issues through pamphlets and notices.
Triple talaq and talaq-e-mughallazah are now-banned means of Islamic divorce previously available to Muslims in India,especially adherents of Hanafi Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence. A Muslim man could legally divorce his wife by proclaiming three times consecutively the word talaq.
S. Krishna Kumar is a bureaucrat turned Indian politician from Kerala. He was also a technologist,technocrat,trade unionist,political and social worker,sportsman,Engineer and civil servant. He was a former leader of Indian National Congress in Kerala and joined Bharatiya Janata Party on 20 April 2019. He has been elected to the Lok Sabha three times during 80s and 90s,and was also a minister in the Rajiv Gandhi ministry and Rao ministry. He served as a member of the Lok Sabha representing Quilon. He was elected to 8th,9th and 10th Lok Sabha.
The Muslim Women Act,2019 is an Act of the Parliament of India criminalising triple talaq. In August 2017,the Supreme Court of India declared triple talaq,which enables Muslim men to instantly divorce their wives,to be unconstitutional. The minority opinion suggested the Parliament to consider appropriate legislation governing triple talaq in the Muslim community.
Vishwanath Pratap Singh held office for slightly less than a year,from 2 December 1989 to 10 November 1990. After state legislative elections in March 1990,Singh's governing coalition achieved control of both houses of India's parliament. Singh becomes the 7th Prime Minister of India,after the loss of Rajiv Gandhi in the 1989 Indian general election. Singh's newly formed National Front (India) won 143 seats in the Lok Sabha and was supported by Bharatiya Janata Party from outside.
